Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Apple has rolled out the fifth generation of its market-leading tablet. Among its new features, the iPad will weigh one pound, down from 1.4 pounds. It's 20 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter than the current fourth-generation iPad. Read Original Content

Swedish wireless equipment company Ericsson AB reported a 34 percent increase in third quarter net profit to 2.92 billion Swedish kronor ($458 million), compared with 2.18 billion kronor a year earlier. Sales in the quarter dropped by three percent to 52.98 billion kronor amid negative currency effects and lower sales in North East Asia and India. Read Original Content

Engage Mobility, Inc., a provider of mobile marketing technologies and solutions, has announced its utilization of a Big Data database of mobile users totaling more than 32 million consumers and eight million businesses. Read Original Content

Magic Software Enterprises, with a presence in more than 50 countries, provides development, deployment, and integration of core business applications, supporting scalable deployment on multiple channels, including on-premise, Web (HTML5), rich Internet, mobile, and SaaS. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Magic Software Enterprises.

Apple replaced rival Samsung as the top-ranked smartphone vendor in the U.S. during the month of September, according to recently released data from market research company Counterpoint. Read Original Content

According to Telecompaper Consumer Panel, Smartphone penetration continues to grow in the Netherlands, reaching 72 percent of Dutch mobile phone users in the third quarter, up from 56 percent a year earlier. Read Original Content

“The new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5 made Apple the U.S. top smartphone seller in September, despite their only being on sale for 10 days of the month,” Charles Arthur reports for The Guardian. Read Original Content

Concerns for the mobile communication industry’s growth and future are rising, as the number of this year’s new smartphone users has increased by only 50 percent compared to last year’s statistics. According to the industry and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, last year there was an average of 2.54 million new smartphone users per quarter. But so far up to August this year, the average dropped to 1.35 million new users per quarter. The increase range reached only 53.1 percent of last year’s numbers. Read Original Content

According to a new market research report, World Mobile phone & Smartphone Market (2010 – 2015), the total global mobile handset market is expected to reach $341.4 billion by 2015 while smartphone sales will account for 75.8 percent of the overall mobile handset revenue at $258.9 billion in the same year. Read Original Content

Since last month the citizens of Johannesburg have been able to hail and pay for taxis through SnappCab, a local start-up. A tap on SnappCab’s smartphone app summons a cab; a driver accepts on his own phone; and the passenger sees the driver’s name and photo, so he knows whom to expect and when. At journey’s end, he can pay with another tap through a pre-loaded credit card, or in cash. Read Original Content

Statistics reveal the UK represents the most expensive market to drive app downloads. In fact it’s 74 percent more expensive than the United States, according to InMobi App Insight Report. Read Original Content

Chinese computer maker Lenovo, which has signed a non-disclosure deal to examine BlackBerry's books, faces regulatory obstacles if it bids for all of the company and will likely pursue just parts, a source familiar with the matter. Read Original Content

Enterprise mobility continues to pose security challenges for IT professionals, with 77 percent of 1,622 IT pros surveyed by Dimension Data citing security as a major headache when it comes to mobility. Read Original Content

Businesses are adopting mobility at a staggering speed as the latest mobility index report reveals a 60 percent increase in the number of devices activated. The Good Mobility Index report for the second and third quarters this year has found total device activations for the quarter rose nearly 60 percent from the same time last year. Read Original Content

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.